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An explosion late Saturday near Beit Shemesh occurred at Tomer, a government-owned defense company, which said the blast was a preplanned, controlled test tied to its engines for missiles and satellites, and the incident caused panic in the area.
The Pentagon signed a $210 million, no-bid contract with Israel's state-owned Tomer to develop the XM1208 cluster munition, a record arms purchase from Israel. While the shells are designed to have a low dud rate, critics warn cluster weapons are inherently indiscriminate and dangerous long after conflict, and the award bypassed public competition under a public-interest exception.